Top Ten Entrecard Droppers During June
We are at the half way point in 2008 and it’s that time of the month to give a loud and far-reaching shout out to Reward Rebel’s top ten Entrecard droppers for June.
On The Bricks
The Path to the Pegasus Letter
Regretful Morning
Amy Lilley Designs
Technically Easy
Aerten Art
Absolutely Mom’s [aka Nessa's Place]
Marriage and Beyond
Happy Family Matters
Turnip of Power
View Reward Rebel’s top Entrecard droppers for May
Your patronage during the past month has been even more greatly appreciated than usual, and I wish you happy blogging and successful internet marketing.
Reward Rebel
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Entrecard Russian Roulette
No doubt I’m shooting myself in the foot here, but during my absence from posting to Reward Rebel blog, I sporadically logged into Entrecard, and there was always a queue of advertisers waiting for approval to display their little promo box on my site.
Curiously, quite often the advertiser wouldn’t have dropped their card on my site on the day they submitted the request… or at all recently.
Firstly, I’d like to thank those advertisers for their loyalty.
Secondly, however, I have to express my concern about how many of the Entrecard community don’t appear to visit a website prior to submitting an advertising request.
In a sense, it is flattering to my blog that a repeat advertiser trusts the content-to-date to be enough, but if there hasn’t been any new content for weeks, why does anyone wish to advertise on a site that’s dormant?
Hey, I’m not biting the hand that feeds me…. er, I suppose I am, but that’s not the point. I’m inclined to infer from the lack of a card being dropped that the advertiser just couldn’t be assed!
Perhaps I’m going about this the wrong way…. “Hey, amigo, WAKE UP!”.
Why aren’t you checking out the websites where you advertise?
It doesn’t matter how many times I’ve advertised on a website, I check it out before submitting a further request. You shouldn’t take anything for granted.
This isn’t the first time I’ve noticed blogs that haven’t posted for months still continue to advertise on Entrecard… as though this is somehow the same thing as maintaining an online business.
Recently, I had to reject an ad request from a website that hadn’t posted fresh content since March! The disquieting aspect was that it was a website dealing with financial markets and their changeability. How can I justify displaying an ad encouraging my readership to visit a site that doesn’t offer anything new for three months… a quarter of a year!
Don’t be complacent, don’t be loyal for the sake of it. If you aren’t involved in internet marketing per se, and participate in Entrecard for the social aspects, you are fortunate that none of what I’ve said here really applies to you, because you have a different agenda.
But if you’re involved in internet marketing and/or blogging to be making money with an online business, it’s all the more important.
You need to constantly monitor where and with whom you advertise, because the internet changes so fast, you may get left behind!
I wish you enjoyable blogging and successful internet marketing!
Reward Rebel
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Entrecard Link Love
Internet Marketing has featured in my life for about 14 months now, and it’s passed so quickly. I remember reading about people working for a year to make money online, and quitting when they still hadn’t generated their first sale! I couldn’t understand why anyone would dedicate twelve months to learning something new - especially something with such life-changing potential - and then chuck it in!
If anything, I’m now more determined than ever because I’ve invested a year of my life in studying internet marketing and acquiring the skills to shape my future and live the life I aspire to. OK, I’m not making a fortune online… yet. But I appreciate that it takes time to build an internet business, it takes time to build anything worthwhile.
As we bid farewell to May and warmly embrace June, it’s appropriate to shout out a big “thank you” to Reward Rebel’s current Top Entrecard Droppers.
I’m grateful to everyone who takes the time to drop their Entrecard on Reward Rebel, but to appear in this list, you know what you have to do, don’t you?
The Path To The Pegasus Letter
Chica & Pumuckl – Living With Cats
I’d also like to thank the sites that have advertised on Reward Rebel this past month. Unfortunately, I haven’t kept a record, so if you advertised during May and would like a link to your site to appear in the “advertisers link love post”, leave a comment below as soon as possible. I’ll be publishing the post in a few days’ time, so don’t delay.
Happy blogging and successful internet marketing to y’all.
My Time Is Valuable ~ Are YOU Wasting It?
Blogging is one aspect of my internet marketing business, and not a hobby or leisure activity. I have used Entrecard to promote Reward Rebel, and consider that it’s made a significant contribution to the site attaining its Google page rank.
Were it not for Entrecard, there wouldn’t have been anything like as much traffic, as many backlinks, or comments. There have been occasions when a comment has triggered an idea for a further post, too.
Reward Rebel joined the Entrecard Community back in November 2007 and although the degree of involvement has fluctuated, for the most part I’ve continued to network with individual members and drop cards routinely.
Recently, I’ve been ‘outsourcing’ card dropping duties to my partner! LOL But, most days I do a ‘personal’ batch of drops, commenting here and there as and when a post snags my interest.
Many sites display the Entrecard widget above the fold, or nearby, ensuring that it can easily be located and clicked.
Sometimes a blog will load without the widget materialising and, when this happens, I try to be kind, and click ‘reload’ but if it fails a second time…. ‘hasta la vista, baby!’
Sadly, too many blogs don’t appear to have given any real thought to the positioning of the Entrecard widget.
When I’m online surfing blogs and dropping Entrecards, it’s as part of the overall strategy to promote my website. My time has a financial value, and I don’t enjoy, nor intend, throwing away my potential earnings while I’m chasing around a website looking for the Entrecard widget.
It’s vital to position the widget where it’s easily – and quickly – located. I’d recommend you position the widget above the fold (on the opening screen, without scrolling down), and
1. Do NOT position the widget in some obscure spot down the page somewhere. Don’t delude yourself that it’ll entice people to read your articles, all it’ll do is make them click out, so not only do you lose that Entrecarder’s drops, you’ll gain a ‘bounce’ on your site traffic stats!
2. Do NOT position the widget amongst a cluster of 125 pixel square ads making it difficult to spot.
3. Do NOT fail to monitor how quickly your site loads – it should not take half a lifetime.
I personally loathe Blinx Ads obscuring site access, and they have instant B-O-U-N-C-E power!
Am I being too harsh? Do I sound like a bitch? If you think I am and I do, I’m certain that you aren’t involved in blogging as part of an internet marketing business.
Anyone managing an online business, or trying to make money online, will appreciate that every moment spent hunting for widgets to click is time that could be spent more productively elsewhere.
So, if you’re wasting my time, or anyone else’s, Stop It! My time is valuable and so is yours! Use it wisely and productively.
Happy blogging.
Reward Rebel
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Don’t Throw In The Towel!
As I often emphasise, blogging isn’t my ‘thing’, it’s part of my internet marketing ‘thing’ – a requirement of the modern online business.
During the past few weeks, I’ve been heavily involved in developing new projects, and haven’t been as active with Entrecard as I had previously been. However, during the past few days I have tried to allocate some time again to networking with the Entrecard community, as it’s been a good friend to this site.
To shake things up a little, I decided to open my Inbox and drop my card on blogs which had visited me way, way back when, but I was in for a surprise.
Within just a couple of days I have found myself time and again landing on a blog that hasn’t posted for anytime between several weeks and a few months.
When I first started building an online business, including blogs, I read about the high proportion of drop-outs after the initial 3-6 months. This is the first ‘wave’ of quitters I’ve personally witnessed, and it’s disappointing.
Did they just run out of things to say? Were they expecting to earn bucketsful of cash overnight? Have you tried making money online in the past and given up?
I’ve felt fed-up with it all sometimes, particularly the endless series of new technologies to get to grips with. I don’t have the residual funds to outsource, so when something needs doing, it’s me doing it, or it doesn’t get done!
I had to teach myself everything, and I’m proud of what I’ve accomplished so far, both in new skills and abilities, and the progress of my online business.
If you find yourself feeling like giving up, try to remember how you felt about making money online – whether via blogging or broader internet marketing techniques — back when you first became interested.
Remember your initial enthusiasm, and the plans you had for your life, which you felt an online business could bring to fruition.
Pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again. Keeping on, keeping on is the only way you’re going to succeed!
Reward Rebel
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King Kong Of Contests!
Marcus Hochstadt of Internet Business Guide has whipped-up the King Kong of Contests!
Reward Rebel is contributing 5,000 Entrecard credits and a copy of Reward Rebel Loot to the jaw-dropping array of prizes that’s up for grabs in the Hochstadt.com Party Contest!
Take a look for yourself:
Consultations, Products & Services
- Max from SiteHoppin gives 10 Beer Stock Pages worth $20-$100 each = $200-$1,000 PLUS 50 One Buck Wiki pages worth $20 each = $1,000, altogether making it to a whopping $2,000!
- Martin Russell from Word of Mouth Marketing gives 50 (!) accounts of 10 cards each at SendOutCards.com worth $25 each = $1,250!
- Gary Evans from Law of Attraction Secrets gives 10 (!) of his Manifest A Miracle systems worth $97 each = $970!
- Marcus Hochstadt from Internet Business Guide For First Class Progress gives respectively 1 of each of his 4 DVD products worth $100 each = $400 PLUS one 2-hour Multimedia Coaching Session worth $300, altogether making it to a $700!
Debbie Lane from Wisdom Hypnosis gives 7 of her Living The Lucky Life! audio CDs worth $23.77 each = $166.39 PLUS a personal 1.5 hour Hypnosis Session by phone worth $250, making it a total of $416.39!- Pat King from FitnessLifeClub gives 1 month of his Premier Health Coaching Package worth $357.98!
- Keith Goodrum from On Becoming a 2%er gives 2 of his DVDs 10 Minute Blog Post worth $100 each = $200!
- Andreas from XavierMedia.com gives 5 one-year VIP memberships to CreateBanner.com worth $35 each = $175!
- Larry Brauner from Online Social Networking gives a personal 1 hour consultation worth $150!
- Jason from The University Kid gives two 60 minute Blogging Consultations worth $60 each = $120.
- Leisa Watkins from Dream Act Plan Believe gives 3 Robert G. Allan books that are personally signed by Robert (!), as well as 3 Richard Paul Evans books, also personally signed by Richard himself!
Salute To Link Love
Entrecard Top Droppers
Proudly presenting this site’s reigning Entrecard Top Drop Squad:
- Frank Kanu
- 60 Were Enough
- Joan Joyce Dot Com
- Chalk Is Cheap
- The Path To The Pegasus Letter
- Worth The Popcorn
- Prove Me Wrong
Marketing Deviant Something From Some Unfamous Body CK Marketing
My thanks to all of you for your continued support of Reward Rebel.
Angel of Friendship
I always intend to respond to tags, but rarely have the time.
Earlier today, however, I was tagged by someone whose friendship and love have shone a light into my day on more than one occasion, and I’m compelled to respond.
My heart is cheered by this beautiful little angel from Jenny of So It Goes and I’m humbled by the sentiments conveyed.
- Durano of The Spitting Vessel
- Jessie of What Have You
- John of JTPratt’s Blogging Mistakes
- Marcus of Internet Business Guide
- Zhu of Correr Es Mi Destino
There exists no obligation to do diddly-squat in response to this, it has simply provided me with an opportunity to stand up in the Mexican Wave of link love rippling through cyberspace.
Reward Rebel
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